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A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II

CHAPTER III
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Not a family of them can now be found anywhere in Oude.

Six or eight hundred of their brave and active men used to sally forth every year, and carry their depredations into Bengal, Bebar and all the districts of the north- west provinces.

Their suppression has been a great benefit conferred upon the people of India by the British Government.
_March_ 11, 1850 .-- Kusreyla, ten miles, over a plain of excellent muteear soil scantily cultivated, but studded with fine trees, single and in groves.

Kusreyla is among the three hundred villages which have been lately taken in mortgage from the proprietors, and in lease from Government, by Monowur-od Dowlah, the nephew and heir of the late Hakeem Mehndee.

He is inviting and locating in these villages many cultivators of the best classes; and they will all soon be in a fine state of tillage.


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